[jira] [Updated] (JEXL-140) Improvements for invoking static methods

["George Scott (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JEXL-140?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

George Scott updated JEXL-140:
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    Description: 
Two related suggestions:

1. The documentation does not really describe how to call a static method from a JEXL script.  I believe that it is done this way:

{noformat}
class="".class;
return class.forName("java.lang.System").getenv("test");
{noformat}

2. Implementing a class() function that parallels the existing new() function would make calling static methods easier, helping to clean up scripts.  The above example would become:

{noformat}
return class("java.lang.System").getenv("test");
{noformat}

  was:
Two related suggestions:

1. The documentation does not really describe how to call a static method from a JEXL script.  I believe that it is done this way:

class="".class;
return class.forName("java.lang.System").getenv("test");

2. Implementing a class() function that parallels the existing new() function would make calling static methods easier, helping to clean up scripts.  The above example would become:

return class("java.lang.System").getenv("test");

    
> Improvements for invoking static methods
> ----------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JEXL-140
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JEXL-140
>             Project: Commons JEXL
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: George Scott
>            Priority: Minor
>
> Two related suggestions:
> 1. The documentation does not really describe how to call a static method from a JEXL script.  I believe that it is done this way:
> {noformat}
> class="".class;
> return class.forName("java.lang.System").getenv("test");
> {noformat}
> 2. Implementing a class() function that parallels the existing new() function would make calling static methods easier, helping to clean up scripts.  The above example would become:
> {noformat}
> return class("java.lang.System").getenv("test");
> {noformat}

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